"Look, we did all we could do," I said trying to appease her as we shopped for new drapes.

Would that appease you, Gabriel?

He just wore them to appease her.

He tried to appease the Norfolk detective by saying no permanent harm had been done and even Mrs. Byrne seemed to have made it through the ordeal.

We eat only to appease our hunger, we drink only so much as it is good for temperate persons to do.

In order to appease the wrath of Apollo, who had visited the camp with a pestilence, Agamemnon had restored Chryseis, his prize of war, to her father, a priest of the god, but as a compensation deprived Achilles, who had openly demanded this restoration, of his favourite slave Briseis.